Comments on: 901 Restaurant and Bar Closes at 9th and I St, NWhttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/
Welcome to the beautiful lifeWed, 04 Mar 2015 00:04:18 -0500hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: Laurence E. Castellihttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-563498
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:51:28 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-563498I remember seeing two shirtless men beating on each other.
]]>By: Keith Morrowhttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560462
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:40:14 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560462That was a federal employee who worked in the area and was later reprimanded.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560442
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:50:41 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560442holy wow! you clearly don’t realize that businesses (especially restaurants) can fail! Did you not consider that their sales might not cover their rent or cost of renovation?
]]>By: RozCathttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560436
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:46:43 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560436Seems like it *should* have worked between overflow from other places that are ALWAYS crowded, hotel guests and the after work office crowd in the nearby offices. For me I just assumed it was nothing special: Boring bad name, never conveyed a unique identity and looked more like a tacky DC club than a restaurant.
]]>By: michael k. wilkinsonhttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560420
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:35:12 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560420Holy wow! How do these people do sh*t like this? Dump a huge ton of money into a place, then close it down barely a year and a half later? Holy wow. What money can buy… I guess.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560353
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:03:45 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560353any restaurant that describes itself as “sexy” is just pathetic. Are we surprised that people didn’t want to eat at a place that looks/feels like VIDA’s “sexy” locker rooms?
]]>By: thomsenitehttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560191
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:00:08 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560191Looks boring, never been in, never even occurred to me to go in.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560175
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:46:06 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560175Agree with the poster about this being a tough corner to thrive in. However, the place didn’t help itself by having a menu that was not focused, and mediocre at best in taste. The happy hour, for which I have been to many a time, was great. $5 sliders could not have been beat! I will definitely miss that. Oh well…cannot wait for a brasserie type place to open in that area. I’m sure it will do well.
]]>By: E2DAVhttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560157
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:49 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560157This is a rough, rough corner to open a restaurant until CityCenter gets up and running. It is in a cold building with dark windows on a corner without much pedestrian activity.

I never liked this place…the menu was all over the place, it changed menus in the middle of their tenure and it generally didn’t have a focus (we’re a club, no we’re an upscale tapas place, no we’re a casual sliders place). It is very close to our office and was always in the mix for go-to places. But, nobody was ever happy about it. The food was mediocre and there was general confusion about what the restaurant wanted to be.

CityCenter food options cannot come soon enough.

]]>By: Customs Boyhttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560156
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:28:30 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560156I was there one night for a reception and some guy took his shirt off and was running around like a crazy person trying to fight another guy. Never seen anything like it.
]]>By: Jayhttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560150
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:17:48 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560150If you asked me what was at this corner I would have said it’s just offices and a construction zone. I’ve probably walked and driven by this place dozens of times. Never once noticed it was there.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560147
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:16:07 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560147I was not quite as impressed. It tried to look too fancy and the food was overpriced for what you got. It just wasn’t a comfortable feel at all. Hopefully restaurant owners will use this example as a lesson.
]]>By: PrettyPaulahttp://www.popville.com/2013/01/901-restaurant-and-bar-closes-at-9th-and-i-st-nw/#comment-560121
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:41:59 +0000http://www.popville.com/?p=74911#comment-560121A shame…I had a delicious meal and great service on more than one occasion at 901. I never figured out why it was always empty despite the great location.
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